302 [For the use of those who possess copies of the original edition of either Laon and Cythna or The Revolt of Islam, with the list of errata wanting, as it sometimes is, an exact reprint of it is appended.] ERRATA. The Author deems it right to state, that the following Errata are not attributable to the Printer. Page 37, line 6, for our, read one. --- 182,2, for the shade, the dream, read the dream, the shade. [On the opposite page will be found a repetition of this list, specifying the Canto, stanza, and line in which each correction was to be made, and rendering it available for reference to any edition.-H.B.F.] 303 SHELLEY'S LIST OF ERRATA FOR LAON AND CYTHNA (THE REVOLT OF ISLAM) MADE AVAILABLE FOR REFERENCE TO ALL EDITIONS. It was of course unnecessary for me to specify in separate footnotes the carrying out of all these alterations indicated by Shelley himself.—H.B.F. [Rosalind and Helen, &c., of which the original title-page is given opposite, is a thin octavo volume, printed in the spring of 1819, and consisting of fly-title Rosalind and Helen, title-page, 2 pages of preface (called "advertisement"), contents, fly-title Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue, and text pp. 3 to 92. On the back of the first fly-title are advertisements of The Revolt of Islam and Alastor, and also an imprint, "C. H. REYNELL, Broad-street, Golden-square, London." At the end of the book are four pages of Ollier's advertisements,— of works by Lamb, Hunt, Shelley, Barry Cornwall, and Ollier. The fly-titles and contents, I insert in their places. In a letter to his publisher, dated "Leghorn, September 6th, 1819," Shelley says-"In the Rosalind and Helen, I see there are some few errors, which are so much the worse because they are errors in the sense. If there should be any danger of a second edition, I will correct them."-(Shelley Memorials, p. 119.) Whether he revised a copy, and, if so, whether Mrs. Shelley subsequently made use of it for her edition, I have no positive knowledge; but I do not discover in the variations between her text and his any trace of such a copy, and therefore think she left these errors in the sense uncorrected. As far as I am aware no entire MS. of Rosalind and Helen exists; but Mr. Garnett tells me of a fragment, written in pencil in a note-book, among Sir Percy Shelley's MSS.,-the conclusion of the poem,-presenting no variation from the printed text. Of the other three poems in the Rosalind and Helen volume, the only MSS. I know of are Sir Percy Shelley's pencil draft of the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, the variations shewn by which, communicated to me by Mr. Garnett, belong to an early stage of the composition, and Mr. Locker's MS. of the interpolated passage relating to Byron in the Lines written among the Euganean Hills.-H. B. F.] |
